Dec. 12, 2011 in Sports
Befitting a world champion, Shane Proctor was being chauffeured across the country on Monday but he would have much rather had his hands on the wheel. Proctor wasn’t driving because …

Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World
Weary after a year of partisan bickering, lawmakers reached a tentative agreement today on a sprawling $1 trillion-plus spending bill that chips away at military and environmental spending but denies …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in Business, Nation/World
Police used “flash bang” percussion grenades to disperse protesters who blocked an entrance to a Port of Seattle facility Monday evening as part of a national effort to disrupt West …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World
New Canadian citizens must remove any face coverings, such as the Islamic niqab or burqa, while they take the oath of citizenship, the country’s immigration minister said Monday.
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Dec. 12, 2011 in Sports
The case against Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach accused of sex abuse, moves into a criminal courtroom Tuesday, when as many as 10 men could testify …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in City
WASHOUGAL, Wash. (AP) — Authorities said Monday that they have recovered the remains of three people from the debris of a southwestern Washington house fire that crews were unable to …

Dec. 12, 2011 in City
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A new federal report shows that speculative real estate investors played a larger role than originally thought in driving the housing bubble that led to record …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in City on Page A1
Second of two parts Wheat is the most common export commodity in Washington’s Garfield County, where Matt Powell spent his childhood. But soon the county of 2,266 people will have …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in City on Page A1
The traffic wall on North Division Street has become more impenetrable than ever for people on foot. New pedestrian crossing signs went up recently at numerous uncontrolled intersections along the …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in City on Page A1
Their light-up vests were battery-powered. Their hats were pointy. Their enthusiasm was contagious. Coeur d’Alene’s elf-costumed Blazen Divaz had people standing in line at the Christmas Bureau over the weekend …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2
PHILADELPHIA – Cardinal John Foley, who for 25 years was the voice for American viewers of the Vatican’s Christmas Midnight Mass and who led an ancient Catholic order in the …

Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3
BEIRUT – Fierce clashes broke out between security forces and army defectors in several parts of Syria on Sunday, activists said, as opposition supporters launched a general strike to press …

Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3
PANAMA CITY, Panama – More than two decades after the U.S. forced him from power, Manuel Noriega returned to Panama on Sunday as a prisoner and, to many of those …
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Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4
LIMA, Peru – Peruvian President Ollanta Humala replaced more than half his Cabinet on Sunday, a day after accepting its chief minister’s resignation in a move widely seen as signaling …

Dec. 12, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich’s trailing rivals derided the leading presidential contenders on Sunday as insufficiently conservative, each trying to find a second wind in the race to …
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